Sen. Mary Landrieu promotes New Orleans as site for patent office

Under a 2011 law that is
designed to accelerate the processing of patent applications, the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office is supposed to open three satellite offices.
It already has announced plans to open up the first office in Detroit.

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Sen. Mary Landrieu,
D-La., in a letter signed by seven of her eight Louisiana congressional
colleagues, asks the Patent and Trademark Office to consider opening up
one of the two remaining satellite offices in New Orleans. "In locating
a satellite office in New Orleans, USPTO has the unique opportunity to
serve as a key driver of this historic economic recovery," according to
the letter, alluding to progress since hurricanes Katrina and Rita and
the 2010 BP oil spill.